Folding box.



e. B. sTREIT.

FOLDING BOX. y APPLIoATIoN FILBD JULY 29, 1909.

Patented Aug.j23, 1910.

To all whom it may concern.

UNITED STATES PATENT cEEIoE.

GEORGE B. STREIT, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

FOLDING BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented A110'. 23, 1910.

Application filed July 29, 1909. Serial No. 510,311.`

- had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to folding boxes or cartons. f

It has for its object an improved box made from a single piece of flexible materititil adapted to completely cover in and inclosc the contents. and also adaptedl when a single fold is raised from its completely folded position to disclose. the contents ot the box while retaining or holding tliem in place.

l'ii the drawings r-Figiire l, illustrates the blank. Fig. i2. illustrates the box folded from the blank shown in Fig. l.

The blank comprises a sheet or Strip o-f exible. material, cardboard or thicki'iape'r7 cut in the foi-1n of a cross shown in Fig. l. "lhis comprises three sections thatl torni the top and bottom o't the box. tive sections that forni the sides and ends of the box and sections 7 and 8 forni the ends of the box and the sections t). l() and l1 form int-iirned flaps that in the folded box lie closely adjacent to thc bottom 2 ainl underneath any articles that may hc packed iii the liox. The' section il is provided vwith a central inspeetioii'opciiing l2 and with corners (l, 7;, f: and that' cxtciid from the ends andl sides ot' this covered section i inward to the cciitial opening l). ln those c oinei's which are next adjacent to the bottom Q and contiguous `to the side section '5, are made slits 13 and ll and the sides of the section l are ciit at. 2l and 22 to va width equal to or slightly less than 'that across the section 3 from the end Q3 of the slot 14 to the end 2l of the slot 13. The corners beyond the points 21 and '32 project to form holding ears Q5 and 2( 3 that engaffge under that portion of the section 3 which lies between the slot and the corner of vthe completed carton and toi-ms an interlocking fastening that is sntliciently secure for practical purposes.

In the folded carton shown in Fig. 2 the space or chamber within the. box is accessible through the opening l2, but the main purpose of the opening 1Q is to furnish iiispection to the contents of the box which are retained therein, and protected from dirt -and the contact. of the fingers of the user.

Articles exhibited for sale in them may be readily exhibited but may not be readily handled, and tlie entire package is so readily applied and so cheap in production that'I the articles exhibited for sale in the package are ldelivered with the carton and without deengage in said slits and an outwardly -exf .tended edge. between said ears' to overlie the periphery of said opening between said ears.

ln testin'iony whereof. l sign this specilication in the presence ot' two witnesses.

GEORGE B. QiTlllll'l.

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